CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3839, 14 June 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, June 14. (Before his Worship the Mayor and W, J* M. ' Larnach, Esq., J.P.’s.)

Drunkenness —John O’Brien, Ja,mes Duncan, and Morton Mansfield, having bfeenAaßked up since Saturday night, were discharged with a caution: J obu Pindor, not appearing, bad bis bail (40s) forfeited. ■' JJ Obscene Language. -* Thomas Byranf for using obscene language within the hc&rih£ of persons in Walker street, was fined 40s, in default fourteert'days* impxisonfhent with hard labor. . • ’

Tbespass.—Michael Heelan was; eluded with being illegally on the premises of Thomas Innifi, Forbury, at 1 a.m,i Oh the 14thJ«t.~ Prisoner pleaded guilty, but explained that he had recent'y gone to reside at Porbmy, i a stranger in the district he had mistaken prosecutor’s house for his tenced to twepty-four hours’ imprisonment. Sly-grog Selling. Qrianfc lyasichorgod by Revenue Officer Lumb with pcrmlttwgtb be sold on his premises at Pino Hill, on Mar 24, throe glasses of brandy,, he being a not duly licensed. Mr E. Chok defended. —Prosecutor asked to be allowed to make'an' explanation, contending that, as prosecutor," he had not only a primary birt a-I'ltgitimatelrcl&al ” right to do so.— objected, owe the Bench decided to bear the prosecutor, who then stated that he had reosived information that defendant had supplied' liquor ad libit** t, rand produced defendant’s ipse dixit to show that he had done so.-—The Bench having looked at the document produced, Mr Cook characterised prosecutor’s conduct as highly improper, -aad added that he considered It an uideofeut and scandalous thing to receive a document as evidence without its having been proved. It wad »»othing less than contempt of Court, and he had i a .good mind to, ask their Worships to commitLumk prosecutor :' I apprehend that. the* e is nothing aggravating in the circumstance.—MrCook; submitted that prosecutor, ought to he, apprehended fbr contempt of Court' . He nulled their Worships’ attention <to impropriety and indecency of a man pretpndingto be sworn add, then not giving al tittle Of ettdendfeJ-The Bench their BSindslu- fVidtoefe waa<th«h'glven<t)d the effect that one James Leckie hndpaidtforthree glasses of brandy supplied to mm by Mis Urant on the night in question. Defendant

kept a store at Pine hill, and on that night had given a ball, to which nearly all the residents in the district were invited. Drink was sold at the ball.—The Bench considered the case clearly proved, and fined the defendant LlO gnd costs.

Maintenance, Thos. Jackman was charged by Benjamin Britton, master of the Industrial School, with neglecting to obey aa order of the Court by which he was adjudged to pay 10s per week towards tho support of his two children, inmates of the above institution.—The Bench ordered the arrears, amounting to, L2, to be paid forthwith; in default a distress warrant to issue forthwith.